David Arquette Gives His $3,700 Lakers Seats to Veterans – During the Game!

04/30/2010 at 09:55 AM EDT

David Arquette was so moved by the Lakers' halftime ceremony honoring war veterans that he and three other ticket holders gave up their $3,700-a-ticket courtside seats for the vets to watch the rest of the playoff game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

"I was so shocked to meet a celebrity who was so cool and so respectful of military guys like us," says Army specialist Joey Paulk, a patient from UCLA's Operation Mend program, recognized Tuesday for providing plastic surgery to veterans severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I was speechless. It was like a dream come true." – Lorenzo Benet

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